301 |
ML-236B Derivatives and their preparation |
US351974 |
1982-02-24 |
US4410629A |
1983-10-18 |
Akira Terahara; Minoru Tanaka |
Compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein R represents a group of formula ##STR2## and the corresponding ring-closed lactones, salts (especially alkali metal salts) and esters (especially C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl esters) thereof may be prepared by subjecting ML-236B, or ML-236B carboxylic acid or a salt or ester thereof to enzymatic hydroxylation, which may be effected by means of microorganisms of the genera Mucor, Rhizopus, Zygorynchus, Circinella, Actinomucor, Gongornella, Phycomyces, Martierella, Pycnoporus, Rhizoctonia, Absidia, Cunninghamella, Syncephalastrum and Streptomyces, or cell-free, enzyme-containing extracts from said microorganisms. The compounds are capable of inhibiting biosynthesis of cholesterol and are thus useful in the treatment of hypercholesteraemia. |
302 |
Antibiotic SF-2103A substance and process for production thereof |
US293063 |
1981-08-17 |
US4404218A |
1983-09-13 |
Tatsuo Ito; Takashi Shomura; Michio Kojima; Norio Ezaki; Masaji Sezaki; Tomizo Niwa |
An antibiotic SF-2103A substance or a salt thereof, and a process for the production thereof are described, and the process comprises cultivating an antibiotic SF-2103A substance-producing strain in a nutrient medium and recovering the desired substance from the culture broth. |
303 |
Anthracycline antibiotics |
US307832 |
1981-10-02 |
US4401812A |
1983-08-30 |
Akiko Fujiwara; Tatsuo Hoshino; Masaaki Tazoe |
The present invention is concerned with novel anthracyclines which are compounds of the general formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a methyl or acetonyl group and R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## Also presented is a method of making the above compounds. The compounds possess antibacterial and antitumor activities. |
304 |
Process for the preparation of the antibiotic oxanosine |
US323650 |
1981-11-20 |
US4394446A |
1983-07-19 |
Hamao Umezawa; Nobuyoshi Shimada; Hiroshi Naganawa; Tomohisa Takita; Masa Hamada; Tomio Takeuchi |
The novel antibiotic, oxanosine, having the structure ##STR1## inhibits the growth of Gram-negative bacteria and has antiviral and carcinostatic activity. It is produced by cultivation of an oxanosine-producing microorganism of the genus Streptomyces, preferably Streptomyces capreolus MG265-CF3, ATCC No. 31963. |
305 |
Process for preparing thienamycin |
US244857 |
1981-03-18 |
US4371617A |
1983-02-01 |
Kentaro Tanaka; Naoki Tsuji; Eiji Kondo; Yoshimi Kawamura |
A new process for preparing thienamycin, a known antibiotic useful as a medicament and veterinary drug, characterized by cultivating Streptomyces penemifaciens sp. nov. in a suitable medium and recovering thienamycin from the fermentation broth. |
306 |
11-Deoxy-carminomycin compounds |
US94671 |
1979-11-15 |
US4370474A |
1983-01-25 |
Giuseppe Cassinelli; Arpad Grein; Sergio Merli; Giovanni Rivola |
Anthracycline glycosides W, X, Y and Z which are prepared by the fermentation of mutant F.I. 416 of Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius. The new compounds are useful against both gram positive and gram negative bacteria and as antitumor agents. |
307 |
Process for treating malaria |
US255541 |
1981-04-20 |
US4368193A |
1983-01-11 |
Alexander D. Argoudelis; David W. Stroman |
A process for treating a protozoan disease, for example, malaria, by the systemic administration to a subject hosting a malarial parasite of the 3-(5'-ribonucleotide) of a novel analog of the well-known antibiotics lincomycin and clindamycin. The analogs are prepared by condensing a cyclic acid with a sugar amine. The 3-ribonucleotides of these analogs can be prepared by microbiological transformation procedures. |
308 |
Maytansinoids |
US188238 |
1980-09-17 |
US4364866A |
1982-12-21 |
Mitsuko Asai; Kazuo Nakahama; Motowo Izawa |
Antibiotic C-15003 PHO of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is H, hydroxyl, alkanoyloxy, alkenylcarbonyloxy or arylcarbonyloxy; R.sub.2 is H, hydroxyl or alkanoyloxy; R.sub.3 is H or alkanoyloxy is produced by introducing a hydroxyl group into 15-position of a maytansinoid compound, and, if desired, thus obtained compound is subjected to deacylation or acylation.Antibiotic C-15003 PHO is useful as antiprotozoal or antitumor agent. |
309 |
Polycyclic ether antibiotic |
US285264 |
1981-07-20 |
US4361649A |
1982-11-30 |
Walter D. Celmer; Walter P. Cullen; Riichiro Shibakawa; Junsuke Tone |
A new acidic polycyclic ether antibiotic has the formula: ##STR1## and can be prepared by the submerged aerobic propagation in aqueous nutrient media of Streptomyces halstedii ATCC 31812. The antibiotic and its cationic salts are active against a variety of microorganisms and are effective in controlling coccidiosis, enteritis, swine dysentery and theileriosis as well as being effective in promotion of growth in poultry and ruminants. |
310 |
Peptide, process for preparation thereof and use thereof |
US22907281 |
1981-01-28 |
US4349466A |
1982-09-14 |
KITAURA YOSHIHIKO; NAKAGUCHI OSAMU; HEMMI KEIJI; ARATANI MATSUHIKO; TAKENO HIDEKAZU; OKADA SATOSHI; TANAKA HIROKAZU; HASHIMOTO MASASHI; KURODA YOSHIO; IGUCHI EIKO; KOHSAKA MASANOBU; AOKI HATSUO; IMANAKA HIROSHI |
The invention relates to novel peptides and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts particularly useful for pharmaceutical purposes such as in the therapeutic treatment of infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms. The compounds have the structure: <IMAGE> wherein R1 is hydrogen or acyl; R2 and Rq are each hydrogen, carboxy, protected carboxy, or a group of the formula <IMAGE> wherein Ra2 is mono- or di-carboxy or protected carboxy lower alkyl or ar(carboxy or protected carboxy) lower alkyl whose aryl moiety may be substituted by hydroxy, Rb2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; Rp is hydrogen, carboxy, protected carboxy, with proviso that when one of R2 and Rq is hydrogen, then the other is carboxy, or protected carboxy, or a group of the formula <IMAGE> wherein Ra2 and Rb2 are each as defined above; Rr is hydrogen or aminoprotective group, m is an integer 1 to 3, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. |
311 |
Process for preparing narasin |
US261068 |
1981-05-06 |
US4342829A |
1982-08-03 |
Ralph E. Kastner; Robert L. Hamil |
The new microorganism Streptomyces granuloruber, NRRL 12389 and the fermentation process for preparing narasin by submerged aerobic fermentation of this organism. |
312 |
Novel compound DC-38-V and process for production thereof |
US175324 |
1980-08-04 |
US4340725A |
1982-07-20 |
Fusao Tomita; Yuzura Matsuda; Kunikatsu Shirahata; Keiichi Takahashi; Hirofumi Nakano; Tomoyasu Sato; Shuji Okubo; Nobuo Nakamura |
The antibacterial compound DC-38-V is produced by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Streptomyces. |
313 |
Cleomycins and process for producing same |
US167439 |
1980-07-09 |
US4326054A |
1982-04-20 |
Hamao Umezawa; Tomohisa Takita; Akio Fujii; Yasuhiko Muraoka; Mamoru Kunishima |
Novel antibiotics cleomycins represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a terminal amino residue of the cleomycin. These compounds are useful as a chemotherapeutic agent for treating cancer and bacterial infections. |
314 |
Antibiotic SF-1130-x.sub.3 3 substance and production and use thereof |
US185592 |
1980-09-09 |
US4316894A |
1982-02-23 |
Shoji Omoto; Jiro Itoh; Tomizo Niwa; Takashi Shomura; Tetsutaro Niizato; Shigeharu Inouye |
A new antibiotic SF-1130-x.sub.3 substance is produced by cultivating a microorganism Streptomyces myxogenes SF-1130 (deposited under FERM-P. 676 and ATCC 31305) in a liquid culture medium under aerobic conditions, and this antibiotic may be isolated from the fermentation broth of said microorganism and is useful as an inhibitor to .alpha.-glucosidase and saccharase. Besides, this antibiotic, when orally given, is useful as a drug for suppressing an elevation in the level of blood sugar in living animals which have taken starch and/or sugars. |
315 |
Peptide, process for preparation thereof and use thereof |
US93523 |
1979-11-13 |
US4311640A |
1982-01-19 |
Yoshio Kuroda; Eiko Iguchi; Masanobu Kohsaka; Hatsuo Aoki; Hiroshi Imanaka; Yoshihiko Kitaura; Osamu Nakaguchi; Keiji Hemmi; Matsuhiko Aratani; Hidekazu Takeno; Satoshi Okada; Hirokazu Tanaka; Masashi Hashimoto |
The invention deals with novel peptides useful for the therapeutic treatment of infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms. Included is the peptide FR900156 having the structure: ##STR1## as well as the peptides of the structure ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 is acyl;R.sub.b.sup.1 is hydrogen, methyl, isopropyl, hydroxymethyl, protected hydroxymethyl or benzyl;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, carboxy, protected carboxy, or a group of the formula: ##STR3## wherein R.sub.a.sup.2 is mono- or di-carboxy lower alkyl or ar(carboxy) lower alkyl whose aryl moiety may be substituted by hydroxy,R.sub.b.sup.2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl;R.sup.p and R.sup.q are each hydrogen, carboxy, protected carboxy, with proviso that when one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.q is hydrogen, then the other is carboxy or protected carboxy;R.sup.r is hydrogen or amino protective group; m is an integer 1 to 3; and n is 1 provided that when R.sup.1 is hydrogen, t-butoxycarbonyl or N-acetylmuramyl, R.sub.b.sup.1 is methyl, m is an integer 2 and n is an integer 1, then R.sup.2 is hydrogen, protected carboxy or a group of the formula: ##STR4## wherein R.sub.a.sup.2 is mono- or di-carboxy lower alkyl having 1 and 3 to 6, carbon atoms, .alpha.-carboxyethyl, ar(carboxy) lower alkyl whose aryl moiety may be substituted by hydroxy and R.sub.b.sup.2 is as defined above, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. |
316 |
Demethyl maytansinoids |
US153522 |
1980-05-27 |
US4307016A |
1981-12-22 |
Mitsuko Asai; Kazuo Nakahama; Motowo Izawa |
Novel demethylmaytansinoids representable by the formula: ##STR1## [wherein X is Cl or H; R.sub.1 is H or acyl group] are produced from maytansinoids by means of enzymic transformation. The demethylmaytansinoids are useful as antifungal, antiprotozoal or antitumor agents. |
317 |
Anti-coccidial substance and its preparation |
US948786 |
1978-10-05 |
US4293650A |
1981-10-06 |
Jean Florent; Jean Lunel; Denise Mancy |
37,454 RP of the formula: ##STR1## and its non-toxic salts with metals and nitrogen-containing bases possess anti-coccidial activity. |
318 |
Process of producing antibiotic X-14766A by a streptomyces |
US128992 |
1980-03-10 |
US4283493A |
1981-08-11 |
Chao-Min Liu; John Westley |
A compound of the formula ##STR1## and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts are disclosed. The compound exhibits antibacterial activity, antimalarial activity, has activity as a growth promotant for ruminants and as an agent in the treatment of swine dysentery. Also provided is a process to produce the novel compound. |
319 |
Plasmid and process of isolating same |
US17812 |
1979-03-05 |
US4273875A |
1981-06-16 |
Jack J. Manis |
A novel chemical compound, essentially pure plasmid pUC6, which is obtainable from a biologically pure culture of the microorganism Streptomyces espinosus biotype 23724a, NRRL 11439. The pUC6 plasmid is useful as a cloning vehicle in recombinant DNA work. For example, using DNA methodology, a desired gene, for example, the insulin gene, can be inserted into pUC6 and the resulting plasmid can then be transformed into a suitable host microbe which, upon culturing, produces the desired insulin. |
320 |
Anthracycline derivatives and process for preparing the same |
US75302 |
1979-09-12 |
US4267312A |
1981-05-12 |
Toshikazu Oki; Akihiro Yoshimoto; Taiji Inui; Tomio Takeuchi; Hamao Umezawa |
New anthracycline derivatives, 1-hydroxy-13-dihydrodaunomycin and N-formyl-1-hydroxy-13-dihydrodaunomycin are produced by microbial transformation of .epsilon.-pyrromycinone and .epsilon.-isorhodomycinone with daunomycin-producing streptomyces and their mutants. The derivatives herein are useful as cancer chemotherapeutic agents. |